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Honestly I don't have much of an explanation outside of I like the irony of a Blind Watcher. And. Well. Grian is right there for things to go awry like that. So,
This was created for the 2024 Reverse Big Bang hosted by @mcytblraufest !! Us artists had to create artwork for the writers to claim this time around! >:)
and speaking of writers.. my art garnered the attention of not one, but two writers, who both created fanfics based off of my art!! It's been such a cool experience seeing how differently they've both taken things and they're both VERY WELL DONE!!!!!!!!
" Glass " by @honeylashofficial
Parts make up a whole, but Mumbo hasn't been a part of anything for a very long time. He was okay with that though. The world was more than welcome to continue outside his window, as long as he had his oven and his cable tv all to himself. But every once in a while, the outside world comes inside, and he has to chase it back out with a broomstick. This time, his technique backfires in a way he never could have imagined. Or... Mumbo could count the number of his friends without even raising a hand. Who knew that a 30,000 year-old creature stealing his bed comforter could change that?
" Lost To The End " by Sary_Sary
Six months ago, Mumbo’s closest friend vanished without a trace, leaving nothing but unanswered questions. 6 months later, a strange creature appears in his bedroom, with no inkling of how or why. With no clue how this creature got there or what it wants, Mumbo is thrown into a whirlwind of confusion as he tries to figure out what is going on. Now, Mumbo has to continue trying to figure out where Grian went, all while learning what this creature even is, and how to help him without harming him in the process. To make matters worse, the only person who can help him unravel this mystery is the one person Mumbo swore he would never work with: Scar.
#mcytblraufest2024#mcyt#hermitcraft#mumbo jumbo#goodtimeswithscar#grian#Blind!Watcher AU#ill have more art for each fic Later and i have many of my own personal thoughts from when i was drawing these LOL#but man. this was such a fun experience and its even more fun finally reading what these two goobers cooked up#i Do have the recordings of me drawing this if Anyone is at all interested . its nearly 30 hours of work haha#didnt. didnt think itd take me that long to draw these. but. hey. ill know for next time :')#BUT YEAH THEIR FICS ARE REALLY GOOD SO FAR IM VERY EXCITED TO SEE HOW MUCH MORE THEY DIVERGE AS THEY GO ON#I REALLY REALLY WANT TO DO MORE ART FOR BOTH OF THEM . SO BADLY#< giggling like a little school girl kicking my leggies . i really really want to theyre so FUN GRAAAAHJ#i really want to redraw these to match how honey and sary both took and kind of ran off with them NSDKJVSDNV#its been really cool seeing the similarities and all the differences. i am so very excited to fully read these. does a little dance
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SCHOOL DANCE AT WAMMY'S!!
Matt got rejected by girls a few too many times and I'm pretty sure Mello is too picky to go with any girl, so BRO TIME IT IS LET'S SHOW THEM HOW TO ✨SWING✨ MATTIE!!
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#death note#fanart#matt#mello#mellodramattic#dn au 2.0#best friends#friends#bros#guys being dudes#mihael keehl#mail jeevas#school dance#dance#wammys house#wammy boys#wammy kids#wammy's house#my art
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Smells Like Teen Hormones
Summary: Charles just transferred to St. Hilarion's and sees the most beautiful boy across the lawn. Edwin Payne is the prima ballerino of St. Hilarion's dance program and a well known ice queen. But, it's not like something like that could stop Charles Rowland.
AN: I wrote this for deadboyween's free day, but got kind of stuck halfway through. This really deserves to be a lot longer and slower, but I just wanted to hit the scenes I thought was fun. I hope you enjoy it!
The first time Charles Rowland saw Edwin Payne, he almost tripped and fell on his face.
Charles had been aware when he got the sports scholarship to St. Hilarion’s that what it was well known for was its dance program. That had smarted a little bit, because Charles knew that if his skin wasn’t so dark and the type of dance that he practiced was something classy like ballet, he could have gotten a scholarship for his dancing. Instead, he got a scholarship for cricket, which wasn’t that bad as Charles sincerely liked cricket. But, it wasn’t dancing.
What Charles hadn’t realized when he transferred to St. Hilarion’s was that a dance program would have boys as well as girls. And not just fit b-boys like the boys who had been in his crew with him. No, beautiful posh boys with legs for days and porcelain skin who moved like water when they walked across the quad.
Charles stumbled and almost knocked over his new mate from the cricket team, Mark, who gave him a dirty look and shoved him back.
“Who the hell is that?” Charles breathed, not taking his eyes off the boy swanning across the grass in the center of a gaggle of small delicate girls.
Mark frowned in the direction that Charles was looking. “Who?” he asked, confused.
“That boy! The tall ballerina one!” Charles exclaimed, rudely pointing.
The boy turned and noticed Charles pointing at him and gave him such an offended look that Charles almost shriveled up like a prune.
Mark scoffed. “That’s Edwin Payne. The dance department falls all over themselves for him, but don’t bother trying to make friends. He’s a tosser, apparently.”
But, Charles wasn’t listening. The name Edwin Payne was ringing like a bell in his ears.
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The next day, Charles went to find Crystal somewhere in the bowels of the art department. She was the only person he felt he could rely on to understand what he was going through. She was beautiful, and mean as shit, and probably his best friend in the world. Which was saying something because he had known her for about two weeks.
“Crystal, you have friends in the dance department, right?” Charles had asked, trying to find somewhere to lean that didn’t have paint all over it. If he ruined another uniform, he was pretty sure his dad would literally kill him.
“Yes, I am friends with the Japanese exchange student in our grade who is also in the dance department. Her name is Niko, Charles,” Crystal said in a long suffering tone as she tried blending in the blues on an oil painting it seemed like she had been working on for a week.
Charles winced. Based on her tone, she had probably told him a few times before, but he had forgotten. In his defense, he was neck deep in love.
“Right, the cute girl with the white hair. And, she’s in the dance department,” Charles forged on.
Sighing, Crystal gave up on her painting and turned to Charles. “Okay. What do you want?” she asked flatly.
“I think the most beautiful boy I’ve ever seen in my whole life has class with her and will you pleeeeeeease introduce us?” Charles rushed out breathlessly.
Crystal stared at Charles. Charles tried to give her his best puppy dog eyes, the ones that made all the old ladies in his neighborhood coo and ruffle his hair.
“And you can’t just walk up to him and introduce yourself why?” Crystal asked incredulously.
“Because I think I would probably die on the spot,” Charles said seriously.
Crystal let her head tip back and let out an explosive sigh. “Fine!” she groaned.
Charles jumped up and punched the air.
“But, you owe me so many chocolate milks!” Crystal said, a threatening finger pointed at Charles. “I have no idea how you hustle the cafeteria ladies out of them, but I want in!”
“It’s my natural charm,” Charles said with a grin and then dodged the wet paintbrush that Crystal threw at him.
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What Crystal set up was a study group with all four of them: Charles, Crystal, Edwin and Niko Sasaki, the Japanese transfer student.
“It’s basically impossible to fuck this up,” Crystal had told him firmly while Charles tried not to hyperventilate in the library bathroom ten minutes before their meet up time. “Just ask him to help you with your algebra with those big wet doe eyes and he’ll be done for.”
“But, what if I ask him for help with my algebra homework and he sees how hopeless I am and he’s disgusted?” Charles asked, pulling at his hair. Transferring from a public school to a private school had a lot of difficulties, but the sudden change in curriculum was by far becoming the biggest one for Charles. He didn’t think he was stupid, but he definitely was way behind all the other students who had been at St. Hilarion’s for years.
Crystal knocked his hands away from his head and grabbed his face in her terrifying claws, squishing his cheeks. She shook him a little and Charles flailed.
“Edwin Payne is the gayest gay boy that I have ever met in my life,” she said vehemently. “And you, Charles Rowland, are the most golden retriever shaped motherfucker in existence. If he doesn’t fall in love with you immediately, I’ll eat my fucking shoe.”
“Thanks, Crystal. You’re a real friend,” Charles said wetly.
“You’re damn right I am,” she said.
Then, the bathroom door opened and a boy yelped, “Hey, what! You’re not supposed to be in the boy’s-”
Crystal kicked the door shut with her big terrifying combat boots, nailing the boy in the nose. “Fuck off, terf!” she screamed.
Charles thought he loved her a little bit.
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If Charles thought that Edwin was beautiful from across a crowded lawn, he was an idiot, because he was even prettier up close.
He was about as tall as Charles, but he was so lanky. He had these long arms and long legs, but all his limbs were under careful precise control at all times. His hands were pretty, pale with long manicured fingers, always carefully folded or deftly handling a pencil. His face was all long lines and flat planes, like someone had crafted him out of marble or something. Except his big dark eyebrows and thick dark lashes made him look incredibly alive, every small expression made louder by the twitch of his eyebrows.
Charles felt like an idiot the second he stepped into the room with him. His hands were immediately clammy with sweat and rubbing them on his trousers didn’t seem to resolve the issue. He kept stumbling over words and talking either too loudly or too softly. He lost count of how many times he dropped his pencil on the floor or knocked the table askew with his jittering knees. He felt like an oaf.
Crystal was looking at him like he disgusted her on a personal level. Charles didn’t know Niko very well, but the intense way her big sparkly eyes focused on him gave him the impression that she was enjoying whatever incredible meltdown he was experiencing.
For his part, Edwin seemed very confused by him. Charles couldn’t blame him. He knew he was acting like a bumbling idiot, primarily in Edwin’s direction. At one point, Edwin had asked him a direction question and it had startled Charles so much he literally threw his pencil across the room. If he hadn’t wanted to sink into the floor so much at that moment, he was pretty sure based on the acidic look that Crystal shot him she would put him there herself.
When the girls took a brief break to visit the bathroom and get them all some coffee, Edwin turned to Charles with a somber look. Charles gulped audibly.
“I’m sorry if I’ve made you feel uncomfortable-” he started to say.
“Not at all!” Charles hurried to say.
“I know I can be somewhat unapproachable to people my own age,” Edwin continued.
“You’ve been aces, mate, really!” Charles insisted.
“I think it’s quite admirable that you are making an effort to improve your academics. If I made you feel any other way, I sincerely apologize,” Edwin said to his lap, looking a bit miserable.
Charles had no idea what Edwin was talking about. If he had insulted Charles accidentally during their study session, Charles had probably been too busy trying not to spontaneously combust to notice. All Charles knew was that he wanted to clear away this misunderstanding as soon as possible.
“It’s not that at all!” Charles said firmly, pressing his hand over both of Edwin’s, where they were folded primly in his lap. “It’s just that you’re proper fit and every time I look at you, I think I’m in danger of choking on my tongue a bit.”
Edwin’s eyes, previously trained on his lap, snapped up to Charles, wide and gray and beautiful. Charles stared back a little breathless. This was the closest he had been able to look at Edwin’s eyes and they were really pretty, like a pale gray, blue, green color. Charles couldn’t quite put his finger on an exact description.
Edwin’s face then flushed with color and belatedly Charles realized what he had said and his face heated, as well. Charles didn’t think he’d ever seen another bloke full face blush before. The pink went all the way down Edwin’s neck. Charles wondered how far down it went…
“Oh,” Edwin said faintly.
“Ah, sorry, that’s-” Charles fumbled, feeling all his awkwardness come back in a rush.
“No, it’s not-” Edwin mumbled, suddenly matching Charles’ stutter for stutter.
Crystal and Niko chose that moment to come back into the study room holding two steaming coffees each.
“Why does it smell like teenage hormones in here?” Crystal asked with a wrinkled nose.
“Did you guys have fun without us?” Niko asked in a sing song voice that might have been a lingering bit of accent or might have had to do with the sparkle in her eyes as she took in both of their flushed faces.
The two boys mumbled something and thanked the girls for their coffees and got back to studying quickly.
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After the study group was over, Crystal and Niko waved goodbye and walked together toward the girl’s dorms. Charles and Edwin both hesitated on the front steps of the library.
“Hey would you-” Charles started to say at the exact time that Edwin spoke.
“It was very-” Edwin said, then stopped, both of them freezing with their mouths opening before stumbling over each other.
“Oh, so sorry, please go ahead.”
“Nah, mate. You go first.”
They both stumbled to a stop again and then fidgeted on the top step, not quite looking at each other.
Charles bit his lip and mustered his courage and asked, “Would you want to hang out this weekend?”
Edwin’s eyebrows went up. “With Crystal and Niko?” he asked slowly.
“If you want,” Charles said, keeping his face still so it wouldn’t show his disappointment.
But maybe he didn’t keep it still enough, because Edwin Payne was looking at him with all of his considerable focus.
“Would you want that?” Edwin asked. And his eyes were so odd and clear and he was looking at Charles and Charles couldn’t help but to tell the entire truth when Edwin Payne was looking into his eyes like that.
“I was wanting to take you on a date, to be honest,” he said with a lopsided smile.
And, oh, that blush was back and it looked even nicer in the fading sunlight than it had in the harsh fluorescence in the library.
“If that’s okay with you,” Charles hurried to tack on. He had never asked a boy out before. He very much didn’t want to embarrass or shock Edwin.
But, Edwin only smiled a small smile and said, “That would be quite alright with me.” Then he ripped a piece of notebook paper out of one of his many color coded spiral notepads he carried in his arms and scribbled something on it before holding it out to Charles. Charles took the paper curiously. “I look forward to it,” Edwin said awkwardly, then hurried down the steps and away across the grass.
Charles looked down at the paper in his hand. It had a phone number written across it in perfect handwriting.
Charles made good on his earlier statement and choked on his own tongue.
#dead boy detectives#dbda#payneland#charles/edwin#fanfiction#wordinggwrites#high school au#dancers au#modern au#charles falls first#i almost called this 'not another teen dance movie'#but i never got to charles break dancing#this is the true tragedy
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desperately need a hxh modern school fic where killua is a dancer bc it just makes sense to me.
he’s so graceful, elegant, & lithe, and there have been multiple moments in it where he’ll do some kind of small but very graceful and pretty action that will make my brain say, “yeah, he’s a dancer” lmao.
like, for example, the way he so gracefully snapped that mosquito’s chimera ant’s neck & then gracefully stepped off w/o even making a sound… definitely dancer behavior.
i've never seen a neck-snap look so beautiful, honestly lmao.
#hxh#hunter x hunter#hunterxhunter#killua#killua zoldyck#hxh killua#hxh killua zoldyck#meta#hxh meta#anime meta#character meta#meta analysis#chimera ant arc#hxh the chimera ant arc#character details#hxh au#hunter x hunter au#hunterxhunter au#au#anime au#modern au#dance au#dancer au#school au#au idea#screenshot#anime screenshot#screencaps#anime screencap#mosquito chimera ant
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taps mic uhhh lautski high school musical au. pokey is sharpay. michie are chad and ryan. im goig insane
#I DONT DANCE BUT ITS MICHIE. RATTLES THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE#originals#lautski#michie#hatchetverse#hatchetfield#hatchetfield musicals#hatchetfield series#nerdy prudes must die#npmd#stephanie lauter#steph lauter#pete spankoffski#peter spankoffski#richie lipschitz#max jägerman#high school musical#hsm#hatchetverse au
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Dancing with the Slytherin’s. Whenever I imagine what its like to dance with the two slytherin I always think of how Sebastian would be more upbeat and lively as opposed to ominis who I think would be more intimate and refined.
The songs that inspired these drawings are “Nancy mulligan by Ed Sheeran” for Sebastian and “Dernière Danse by Indila” for ominis which I honestly think really captures their way of dance 🤔
#mc hogwarts legacy#hogwarts legacy ominis#hogwarts legacy sebastian#hogwarts legacy mc#hogwarts legacy oc#harry potter hogwarts game#slytherin#hogwarts legacy#ominis gaunt#ominis x mc#sebastian sallow#sebastian x mc x ominis#sebastian x mc#hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry#hogwarts oc#hogwarts au#headcanon#dancing#hl oc#artists on tumblr#ominis fanart#Sallow fanart#blonde blind slytherin#slytherin mc#hphl mc#versailles black
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^ TRIGGER WARNING ^
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#here's some art I've made so far of the au i taled abt in my last post!!#I'm going to call it the “APOCALYPSE AU” for now#i know it's kinda bland#i hadn't come up w a cool title just yet💔#i also might work on the other ref sheets for the other toons that are going to be in this au soon! but i don't promise it bc of school:“(#bendy#cuphead#art#digital art#bendy fanart#cuphead fanart#bendy the dancing demon#my art#apocalypse AU
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Has anybody think about this before? It just fits perfectly ✨
Just for this once Sanji is the confident one 🤭 Also I will forever mix my obsessions, no matter the time, if it clicks in my head I need to draw it 💛💙
If you like my art, please consider supporting me on Ko-Fi
My OP Fanart Masterlist here
#sanuso hsm2 au#i don't dance#high school musical#high school musical 2#hsm2#au#every week is sanuso week#sanuso#sanji x usopp#usopp x sanji#op usopp#op sanji#god usopp#sanji#usopp#usopp fanart#sanji fanart#op fanart#one piece#pride month
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Making a full post for my Fuuta Ballet AU because I actually had more thoughts about it hehe (Ballerina Girl)
+ a version of the au that's more general to the whole cast, with Es as the protag here!
As mentioned in the art, he’s exactly the same as canon except his life now revolves around dance. He’s in a very cliquey company (The Dark Pas de Trois?), surrounded by friends who are very similar-minded. Even though they're not in dance competitions specifically, they're constantly striving for better reviews/reputations than the neighboring companies. Fuuta struggles with stage fright, but doesn't let on to the others -- he just pushes through every time.
They visit a company rehearsing Nutcracker, and one of the snowflake dancers does something problematic backstage. Fuuta blasts him on social media for it, gaining popularity for his own account/dance company. Auditions and things go a bit smoother for them now that they’re internet famous.
There’s a scandal with the dancer playing the demon sorcerer Rothbart in Swan Lake, and Fuuta catches it on film. The video goes viral, once again boosting Fuuta’s popularity and ego. He’s praised as both a hero and talented performer. His friends are also soaring with this newfound fame.
Then, he catches a young background dancer in Sleeping Beauty doing something he deems worthy of a callout. He exposes her all over his social media. Rather than the usual social backlash, the girl is harassed in person. A crowd takes things too far, and an accident results in an injury that ends her career just as it was beginning. She will never dance again.
Facing his suspicious friends (and overcome with his own guilt), Fuuta flees the company. He plans on quitting dance for the rest of his life as well. Instead, he gets a mysterious invitation to the Milgram Dance Academy. He's never heard of them before, and the internet doesn't turn up much on them. Left with few other choices, he shows up for the first lesson.
The first thing that strikes him is it's a boarding school. He must live there and follow their rules in order to attend. They take his phone and restrict outside contact, much to his horror. The school solely focused on the arts -- no competitions, no big shows. There are three major shows they are planning, but Fuuta couldn't find any venues/tickets/advertisements, despite mention of a "global audience". The program is rigorous, and the instructor decides at the end of each semester if their final performance passes or fails.
The only thing more concerning than the sudden restriction of his phone is the strange group of residents he'll be spending his next few years with. His instructor is a mere child, no more than fifteen and very cryptic about their past training. His other classmates range in age and personality. He starts off dancing just as confident as usual, trying to show up the other students and make a strong first impression.
However, he fails the first semester. The grade list is made public to the whole academy, and Fuuta finds himself the subject of watching eyes and condescending whispers. Becoming sensitive to prying stares and audiences, he falls back into his usual stage fright. He endures (emotional) attacks from the passed students, although in his distraction he screws up some cues and gets injured.
Regarding the actual choreography -- as much as I love the classic shows (I mean, just look how cute he is as the nutcracker ;-;) my brain has been going brrrrr picturing ballet adaptations of the mvs... 🎹 / 🎹 / 🎹 / 🎹
#milgram#fuuta kajiyama#no au can get me going like a dancer au can...#i wanted to take the stakes down from death/murder but still have some drama#so theres still injury and guilt mixed in with the dancing lmao#i know the whole cast version makes more sense but i wanted it to be about my special little guy 👏👏👏😂#you know how it is#both these aus require a school full of other dancers but im picturing the milgram cast as fuutas specific class he spends all his time wit#and since the other students are the audience i guess that means you all are part of my au 😌 welcome to dance school 😌#i had the bulk of this jotted down for so long - its nice to finish the art and clean up the phrasing to post!#dropping this while i reboot my brain from my trip... i shall return soon ;-;
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"so just for this moment, as long as you're mine"
or fiyeraba yuri bc i love them n omg its been years since ive drawn wicked fanart <3
#my art#wicked#elphaba thropp#fiyero tigelaar#fem!fiyero#au mix of musical n book bc why not? i do prefer book fiyero more but dancing thru life is a fav#fiyeraba#“fiyeraba is a het ship”..*yuri beam* ty ty#tbh i have a lot of fem!fiyero art from middle school bc i didnt like drawing boys lol
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they may have built a super advanced robot replica of their dead classmate, but they’re still teenagers!
i put a little too much effort into their matching pfps… so this is testtube and fan at a new year’s party (which may or may not have lead to bot’s creation)
#based off of what i heard from random gossip in nat 5 drama this is what i assume highschool (or in my case secondary school) parties look—#—like which… actually makes the dance i’m going to go to in a few weeks a tad bit intimidating but also i heard that there will be NO—#—ALCOHOL INVOLVED because we’re going to a fancy establishment and we’d probably get in trouble if this school event ended with every teen—#—involved absolutely wasted#not like the organiser of this party had to worry about that..#i actually came up with a few plot points based around this new year’s party but the fan and testtube drunk bet one is probs be the most—#—important one cus like. they made bot lol#(i say this as if i will ever have the motivation to actually post comics for this au that have a plot)#my brain is filled with plotlines i just can’t write ‚em down well lmao#ii bot#ii test tube#ii fan#i(i) guess goo’s there too#fantube#technically?#ii#inanimate insanity
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Some pomni school doodles!! featuring the ribbon dancer pomni design 👀 (oh, and my pomni design...)
(yes I was referencing that one spider man meme.. by memory.)
#tadc#the amazing digital circus#tadc pomni#ribbon dance pomni#art#fanart#pomni fanart#tadc au#artist#small artist#pomni doodles#school doodles#doodles
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Galladrabbles: "Do You Wanna Dance?"
Thank you @rayrayor for taking us back with this Beach Boys classic. ✨ 💃 ✨ @galladrabbles.
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“Do you wanna dance or what?”
Ian looks up from the punch bowl, stunned. No way.
Why in the hell was Mickey Milkovich asking him to dance? He’d barely looked at him since third grade.
Ian spins around, sure that Mickey’s talking to someone else. “Who? Me?”
“Yeah, you. Ain’t no one else here.” Mickey glares at him impatiently. Always so tough.
The music transitions to something slow. Their eyes lock, and it’s like he can see Mickey’s armor start to crack.
“Someone dare you to ask me?” It’s the only explanation.
Mickey reaches out and grabs his hand. “No.”
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day 44
#fiddling with ibis paint blending modes and lighting#homestuck#johndave#pepsicola#dave strider#john egbert#johndavedaily#davejohn#day 44#school dance au?#idk#slow dancing? tango? for the viewer to decide cuz idk
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The first time Merlin and Arthur talk, it's due to a seating chart.
One moment Merlin is sitting with Will and talking about anything that isn't Biology, and the other he's sitting next to the football captain who- if he's being honest with himself - intimidates him just a little bit.
Because Arthur is all blonde hair and blue eyes and arms as thick as Merlin's thighs, and Merlin is just Merlin - some boy in the back of the class who never speaks.
Arthur is surprisingly nice, although a little bit egotistical at times. He's kind, and when he smiles Merlin can see his canines that kind of make him look like an overgrown puppy (Merlin tries not to think about why he's been so focused on Arthur's smile or his teeth because that's a little bit creepy).
They switch seats again once the semester's over, and Merlin figures that that would be the end of that.
Because Arthur is all laughing with friends and doing sports and having girls faint at his feet, and Merlin is just Merlin. Arthur has no real reason to associate with Merlin after this, so Merlin just lifts his bag and sits next to some girl with brown hair as he silently mourns his silly little crush on the football captain.
Only, it doesn't end there.
The second time Merlin and Arthur talk, Merlin is standing in front of his locker.
Merlin is putting away things from his last period when he gets tapped on the shoulder. He expects Gwen or Will, and is ready to complain to them about some random assignment when he is faced with blonde hair and blue eyes instead.
Arthur asks Merlin if he'd like to come to his next football game. Merlin has no idea what's happening, but Arthur is blushing and looking away and running his hands through his hair, and Merlin responds yes before processing anything.
Merlin goes to the game. He has no idea what's happening for the entirety of it, but Arthur smiles at him from the field and Merlin can feel his heart pounding in his ears.
The third time Merlin and Arthur talk, Merlin doesn't quite understand what's going on.
Arthur puts his lunch tray down in front of the seat that is next to Merlin's like he's sat there every day for the past four years. Merlin is a little confused, and wishes that Gwen and Will would stop waggling their eyebrows at him like they're having multiple strokes. When he looks back at the table where Arthur usually sits with his teammates, he can see Gwaine winking at him and making a gesture that should not be made in the school cafeteria.
Merlin is now more than a little bit confused, but he simply eats his soggy slice of pizza and ignores it when Gwen and Will suspiciously has to leave together for some very important business that must be handled together and will take the entirety of the rest of the lunch period.
Arthur is also staring at Merlin weirdly intensely, but Merlin is also staring right back.
Because Arthur is gorgeous and good-looking and built like a Greek god, and you can't really blame Merlin for staring when he's right there.
The next time Merlin and Arthur talk, Merlin is so darn confused he thinks he's losing his mind.
Arthur asks Merlin out for winter formal. Merlin checks behind him for a possible game of truth or dare around the corner, and blinks at Arthur when he doesn't find anything.
When Arthur grows visibly more and more upset at Merlin's silence, Merlin can't stand the kicked puppy expression that he has and straight up asks Arthur if this is a prank. Arthur says no, and Merlin asks why.
Because Arthur is beautiful and handsome and smiles like he's the sun, and Merlin is just Merlin. Arthur could have anyone he'd like in the school, so certainly he would not like the weirdly quiet boy who has holes in his jeans and rips in his sweaters.
Only, he does.
Because Arthur tells Merlin that, to Arthur, Merlin isn't just some boy in the back of the class who never speaks, and he isn't the weirdly quiet boy who has holes in his jeans and rips in his sweaters.
To Arthur, Merlin is the boy whose nose scrunches up adorably when he's focused on a Biology paper. He's the boy that Arthur had been looking at from the other side of the Biology classroom long before they got put together in the seating chart, and the boy that made Arthur's heart drop when he realized that he had no actual reason to talk to anymore after they switched seats.
He's the boy who Arthur is sure that his friends are sick of hearing about. The boy with the sassy remarks that make Arthur wants to kiss him, and the boy who Arthur wants to make smile all the time, whose hands Arthur wants to hold.
Merlin kisses him right there in the hallway, because if he held himself back for one more second he might've actually exploded. Arthur kisses him back.
The next time Merlin and Arthur talk (around half a minute after their kiss), Arthur asks Merlin to be his boyfriend. Merlin says yes, and Arthur smiles so bright that Merlin thinks of the puppy again.
Merlin goes with Arthur to the winter formal, even if the tickets are outrageously expensive. Merlin attends every single one of Arthur's games just to be kissed after them, and as he is laying in bed one day with Arthur's chest pressed up to his back and Arthur's strong arms around his waist, Merlin thinks about writing a thank-you note to his Biology teacher.
And while Arthur is still all blonde hair and blue eyes and arms as thick as Merlin's thighs, and Merlin is still just Merlin, Arthur loves Merlin, and Merlin loves him right back.
#i snuck in a complaint about my school's winter formal entry prices bc who the fuck is paying 75 dollars to dance#ooooooh they're cute#merlin#merlin bbc#merlin emrys#merlin x arthur#arthur x merlin#arthur pendragon#merthur#bbc merlin#merlin/arthur#arthur#oneshot#ficlet#my writing#my posts#merthur modern au#modern au#high school au#modern merthur
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ugh the anatomy sux but here u go *checks notes* 5 rogean enjoyers
#x men#marvel#rogue#jean grey#jeanrogue#rogue x jean#jean x rogue#xmen au#x men comics#uncanny xmen#theyre at a school dance in the 2nd one teehee
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